Firebird and Interbase Data Provider

ADO.NET Data Provider for Firebird and Interbase databases

Does not exist in Mono, but is a separate project
The Firebird Relational Database is is an independent project which uses source code based on the Interbase source code released by Borland under the Interbase Public License
Both the Firebird Relational Database and the Firebird .NET Data Provider can be downloaded from here
The Firebird .NET Data provider has been made available by Carlos Guzm varez (aka "Carlos G.A."), who has also made a number of contributions to the OdbcJdbc code

Bugs with Mono or the data provider should be reported in Mono's Bugzilla here. If you do not have Bugzilla user account, it is free and easy to create one here.

Current Status

Current stable version: 1.0
Current developement version: 1.5
The new data provider/driver is written in C# and provides a high-performance native implementation of the GDS32/API functions. This means that .Net developers will be able to access Firebird databases without the need of Firebird client install
In support of the new module, a new mailing list firebird-net-provider has been created. Please use this list for any questions that you may have about the provider

Need a working mono and mcs

Need access to a Firebird Relational Database or you can download it from here
Get the Firebird .NET data provider from here as firebird-net-provider. Make sure the Firebird .NET data provider binary assembly FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird.dll is installed in the same place as the mono class libraries.
Has a ConnectionString format:
"Database=databasefile.gdb;User=user;Password=pass;Dialect=3;Server=hostname"